I was asked to make a cake
topper and I said " no. I don't do cake toppers". I actually
paid a wonderful polymer clay artist who specializes in cake toppers for
my own wedding cake topper. Personally I don't do "light weight"
figurines. I get so caught up in the details and the project I feel it
needs to be large enough to see and enjoy. So the customer talked me into
"thinking about it" and doing it as a table adornment/ keep sake
to be placed next to the cake. This is the "Cake Sider" I came
up with. She sent me LOTS of pictures and detailed requests.

Canoe, Bride and Groom in
their favorite canoeing outfits, their dog Bailey a beautiful reddish
brown and white freckle Springer Spaniel with the sweetest eyes and a red
colar, dry packs of various size and colors lashed to the stay bars,
cooler, a map in his lap, sunglasses for both but I opted to leave her
cute face uncovered, his squirrel tail/goatee thingy, a earring in his
left ear, name we-no-nah on the side of the canoe, the "yoke" in
the middle of the canoe, and the paddles. His paddle was a Christmas gift
from her and I did my best to match the pattern and coloring in the
pictures. It received by them 04-28-12 and they called to say they loved
it, no she couldn't keep it a secret from him, she was took excited to
share it :)